This phenomenal bestseller? over 700,000 copies sold? changes readers? lives and helps them transform their organizations. In this new edition, the text has been updated and revised throughout to make it even more readable and powerful and a new section has been added that details the many different ways that people are using the book.

Includes index.

Part 1 : Self-deception and the "box". Bud -- A problem -- Self-deception -- The problem beneath other problems -- Beneath effective leadership -- The deep choice that determines influence -- People or objects -- Doubt -- Part 2 : How we get in the box. Kate -- Questions -- Self-betrayal -- Characteristics of self-betrayal -- Life in the box -- Collusion -- Box focus -- Box problems -- Part 3. How we get out of the box. Lou -- Leadership in the box -- Toward being out of the box -- Dead ends -- The way out -- Leadership out of the box -- Birth of a leader -- Another chance -- How to use Leadership and Self-Deception -- Share your story -- Excerpt from The Anatomy of Peace -- About the Arbinger Institute.